Pilot-scale investigation of drinking water ultrafiltration membrane fouling rates using advanced data analysis techniques

Water Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 508-518

  Chen, Fei ^a   Peldszus, Sigrid ^a   Peiris, Ramila H ^a   Ruhl, Aki S ^b   Mehrez, Renata ^b   Jekel, Martin ^b   Legge, Raymond L ^a   Huck, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Fouling rate classification; Membrane fouling; Multivariate statistical analysis; Natural organic matter

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTERS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOPOLYMERS; EFFLUENTS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEMBRANE FOULING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CARBON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER QUALITY;

FLUORESCENCE EXCITATION; FOULING RATE; FOULING RATE CLASSIFICATION; IRREVERSIBLE FOULING; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; ORGANIC CARBON DETECTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PILOT SCALE; REVERSIBLE FOULING;

POTABLE WATER;

BIOPOLYMER; DRINKING WATER; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC CARBON; PROTEIN; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; BIOFILTRATION; COLLOID; DATA INTERPRETATION; DRINKING WATER; FOULING; MEMBRANE; MONITORING SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMER; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOFILTER; BIOFILTRATION; BIOFOULING; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; PILOT STUDY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DRINKING WATER; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PILOT PROJECTS; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 84888823796     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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